renewed interest in Addy

**Jessaleah** · November 23rd, 2006, 05:00 AM

I think Addy is just precious! There are about 4 dolls in line ahead of her to be mine next, but that may change if I keep seeing pretty pictures of her!

**AngieBelle** · November 23rd, 2006, 04:06 PM

I'm reading Soon Be Free by Lois Ruby. It's about a young Quaker boy who is helping some slaves escape. I like the parallels between the Underground Railroad and Jews in Europe during the 30s and 40s.

I read Addy's books a long time ago and remember liking them. Earlier this year, I found a complete set with the original illustrations at an antique mall for only a dollar or two per book. I'm starting to wish I hadn't passed them up. I wonder if they are still there...

**katherinecusick** · November 23rd, 2006, 04:50 PM

Angie,

I think you should check and see if those Addy books are still there!

Eleanor,

I am really inspired by your DD-7 reading Addy's books as an introduction to slavery/the civil war era. I think that if our Sam's Club still has an Addy/mini doll set, I will get it and put it away for my DD and likely read Addy's books myself in the interim. I am dreading the day that our DD has to learn about this disraceful part of American History and maybe Addy's stories will help...

[img]smile.gif[/img] Katie

**AngieBelle** · November 24th, 2006, 04:16 AM

Her pink short story dress is long gone and that was one of my favorites. [img]frown.gif[/img]

I've missed out on 2 favorite Molly dresses too because I don't have her either- Route 66 and Victory garden.

**cowgirlsue** · November 24th, 2006, 04:32 AM

Originally posted by happyAGmommykatie:
Eleanor,I am really inspired by your DD-7 reading Addy's books as an introduction to slavery/the civil war era. I think that if our Sam's Club still has an Addy/mini doll set, I will get it and put it away for my DD and likely read Addy's books myself in the interim. I am dreading the day that our DD has to learn about this disraceful part of American History and maybe Addy's stories will help...

Katie, you couldn't do better. The books made an impression without traumatizing my daughter, and inspired her to learn more. And the overriding message of familial love conquering all was such a positive one. I've read comments by people complaining that Addy's stories sugarcoat the realities of slavery, but I think that's missing the point. The books are geared for children, and in my young daughter's case they did exactly what was intended: gently educated, entertained, and inspired her to learn more.

And not to start a debate here, but I think that Connie Porter is the best writer of the AG historical series, followed by Janet Shaw. This is not to take anything away from Valerie Tripp's books (which we've always loved) but I find the other two authors to be more compelling.

**cowgirlsue** · November 24th, 2006, 04:35 AM

Originally posted by AngieBelle:
Her pink short story dress is long gone and that was one of my favorites. I've missed out on 2 favorite Molly dresses too because I don't have her either- Route 66 and Victory garden.

Route 66 and the Cape Island dress were at the Outlet a month ago. Maybe there are still some there. I believe Kit_Girl was planning an Outlet inventory trip next week...watch for her post and maybe you can make arrangements with her for those two outfits (which I adore and in Molly's case got even before we had a Molly, LOL).

**QNPoohBear** · November 24th, 2006, 08:47 PM

Here is a list I have compiled for fans of Addy's books. I have NOT read ALL of the books on the list, mostly just the middle grades and Young Adult books.

Younger readers

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Nettie's Trip South by Ann Turner

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

Next Stop Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl (Her Story) by Dorothy Hoobler

Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringold

Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family by Delores Johnson

Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport

Alec's Primer by Mildred Pitts Walter

Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence

Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell, R. Gregory Christie

A School for Pompey Walker by Michael J. Rosen, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Jumping the Broom by Courtni C. Wright, Gershom Griffith

Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade: The Johnkankus by Irene Smalls, Paul Goodnigt, Melodye Benson Rosales (Addy's original Illustrator!)

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder, Jerry Pinkney

Me and Willie and Pa: The Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad by F. N. Monjo

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden

Middle grades

Nightjohn and Sarny by Gary Paulsen

North By Night and Stealing South by Katherine Ayres

Letters from a Slave Girl by Mary E. Lyons

Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spie by Mary E. Lyons, Muriel Branch,

Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story by Andrea Pinkney

Anna Sunday by Sally Keehn

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty

Glory's Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad (Doll Hospital, Book 3) by Joan Holub

Night Journey to Vicksburg by Susan Rowan Masters

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester

Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864 (American Sisters) by Laurie Lawlor

My Last Skirt by Lydia Durant

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby

Soon Be Free by Lois Ruby

Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong

Dear America

When Will This Cruel War Be Over: The Diary of Emma Simpson

A Picture of Freedom: The diary of Clotee, a slave girl

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin

I Thought My Soul Would Rise Up and Fly: The Dairy of Patsy, a Freed Girl

History Mysteries

Watcher in the Piney Woods

Young Adult

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Evvy's Civil War by Miriam Brenaman

Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi

The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi

In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi

Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi

Sarah's Ground by Ann Rinaldi

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi

Amelia's War by Ann Rinaldi

Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

Annie Between the States by L. M. Elliott

Younger Readers and Middle Grades Non-Fiction

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Go Free or Die: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris

If You Traveled On The Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine

Many Thousand Gone : African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton

Abolitionists: A Force for Change by SarahDe Capua

Slavery: The Struggle for Freedom by James Meadows

Frederick Douglass by John Passaro

Harriet Ross Tubman by Don Troy

Sojourner Truth by Laura Spinale

The Underground Railroad by Carla Williams

Adult Fiction

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

Adult non-fiction

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward

Civil War Women: The Civil War Seen Through Women's Eyes

Women's Rights Emerges From the Anti-Slavery Movement 1830-1870

The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo 
by Tom Feelings, John Henrik Clarke

All My Trials, Lord by Mary Young

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